TWRP Recovery is Now available for Galaxy S6

A while back, Chainfire released the root for the international SM-G920F variant of SGS6 and Galaxy S6 edge SM-G925T. Now TeamWin has officially released TWRP 2.8.6.0 recovery for Galaxy S6 devices with codename “zeroflte”. TWRP is a higher popular touch-based custom recovery that offers the ability to flash custom ROMs, take nandroid backups, restore ROM and a lot more. You don’t require root to flash TWRP on Galaxy S6 as it can be easily flashed using ODIN.

This recovery can be flashed on international variants of Galaxy S6 with “zeroflte” as the code name. The models include: SM-G920F and SM-G920I.

5. Boot your device intoODIN Download mode: To do so, power off the phone. Now hold down the ‘Volume Down + Home button’ and while holding both of them simultaneously, press the ‘Power’ button until you see a warning screen. Then let go of all the buttons and press ‘Volume Up’ to enter into Download mode.

6. Then connect the phone to your computer via USB cable.

7. Start Odin3 v3.10.6.exe. ODIN should show a port number in the ID:COM box which depicts that device is connected successfully.

8. Click just on the ‘PDA’ (AP) option in ODIN and don’t touch any other fields. Browse and select the twrp-2.8.6.0-zeroflte.img.tarfile. Make sure Repartition is NOT checked.

9. Click on Start and let the process complete, phone will reboot itself. You should see a PASS message in ODIN.

That’s it! You can Boot into TWRP recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Up + Home + Power button, at the same time. Then release all buttons when recovery screen appears up.